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An important step in the life of the Adult Training Centre was the
integration of fourteen female trainees who previously attended two
other local authority Training Centres. This became necessary as the
London Borough of Wandsworth whose centre they were attending wished to
use their places. The girls have settled down well and the innovation
has proved very successful.
Since the last report construction has started on the combined
adult training centre and psychiatric day centre which is to be erected
at 1-9 St. Mark's Road, W.ll. Planning of the necessary equipment
which will be required in the centres is well advanced as it is
anticipated that the building will be operative in the autumn of 1970.
Special Unit for Subnormal Children
The Unit which is attached to the St, Quintin Day Nursery receives
retarded children between the ages of three and five years. Full use
of the facilities afforded by this Unit have been made throughout the
year.
Notting Hill Neighbourhood Service
During the course of the year arrangements were made with the
Notting Hill Neighbourhood Service to appoint an officer from the
Borough to act in an advisory capacity with the object of promoting and
conducting effective liaison with this voluntary organisation. As the
number of referrals from the Neighbourhood Service appeared to show a
preponderance of psychiatric problems, Mr. Ashbridge, Mental Welfare
Officer was appointed from this department,
This contact has been of value in the interchange of information
between the organisation and the appropriate departments of the
Council.